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A California woman says Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s. He denies it. Could the FBI break the deadlock? “They could assign 100 agents to this and be done in two days,” Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director, tells USA Today. That...

Journalist Shane Bauer of Mother Jones has turned his reporting on a private prison into a book, “American Prison.” NPR calls it “both the remarkable story of a journalist who spent four months working as a corrections officer, and a horrifying exposé of how prisoners...

The Trump administration is unable to account for the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 migrant children who illegally entered the U,S. alone this year and were placed with sponsors after leaving federal shelters, according to congressional findings reported by the New York Times. The revelation echoes...

A hearing to determine whether former Texas high school principal Joe Bryan should be granted a new trial for murdering his wife came to a dramatic conclusion on Monday with a surprise, eleventh-hour admission from the expert witness whose testimony had proved critical, reports ProPublica....

An estimated half a million people incarcerated in the U.S. have a serious mental illness. More than 40 percent of jail inmates have been told by a mental health professional that they had a mental health disorder. While about 1 in 4 jail inmates met...

The U.S. Justice Department will double the funding it grants tribes for public safety programs and crime victims as it seeks to address the high-rates of violence against Native American women, acting associate attorney general Jesse Panuccio tells the Associated Press. DOJ will provide more...